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What would it look like to radically change the way we interact with the world around us? Changed our framing from that of consumerism, consumption, and property to one of gift, exchange, and community ownership? This topic was originally inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass,” and current events have put a new spin on it. Let’s gather for contemplation, reflection, and making meaning together.

The new day-to-day reality we are living is a rapidly changing and frequently heartbreaking one. And there are ways even now, so early in the tragedy of a global pandemic, to both find and build silver linings. Let’s come together in community, create some alchemy while we create community, and be reminded that the interdependent web has many incredible gifts which will help us through difficult times.

What does it take, as individuals and as a community, to welcome wisdom? Cultures change, norms change, language changes… but where is wisdom in all this? Naguib Mahfouz wrote, “You can tell whether one is clever by their answers. You can tell whether one is wise by their questions.” Let’s throw open the doors of our hearts to questions, and think about how we can use this wisdom gift to live into our dream of a world community where peace, liberty, and justice are available to us all. [Please also check the videos section of our Facebook page for a recording of the message via FB Live.]

We teach the Golden Rule to children, because that is when we began to understand this important concept. And there are situations where the Golden Rule is the best option, but what about those moments when it isn’t? Join KUF Sunday morning to explore the idea of the platinum rule, and what it means in a community grounded in stories, relationships, promises, and, perhaps most importantly, aspirations towards a better world. [Please also check the videos section of our Facebook page for a recording of the message via FB Live.]

KUF joins congregations across Canada in marking International Women’s Day. How can we together see both how far we’ve come and the work that remains? What is our work to do as we move through what we’ve inherited and build  a new way of being? As Unitarian Universalists how do we use our commitment to always search out truth and meaning in this work? (Rev. Beckett Coppola and Frances Koziar speaking)

Our faith calls us to create a world with ever increasing justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. What are the causes and conditions we need to cultivate to build the resilience we need to practice beloved community in this work?